To celebrate the close of an excellent year for our industry, we’d like to share our “best of everything,” including 2022 product launches, top projects, most popular blogs, and awards.
2022 Product Launches
Classic Grooves
Subtle striations and tone-on-tone optics make our Classic Grooves porcelain tile collection both timeless and contemporary. The swirling surface glints and glows with a soft, sophisticated sheen for a truly fresh spin on surface aesthetics.
Beyond the eye-catching aesthetics, this floor and wall tile collection hits all the right notes with graphically-enhanced warm and cool neutral tiles complemented by an array of decorative accents and a sheet mosaic of individually cut palm shapes.
⏤ Classic Grooves Field Tiles are Responsibly Made in the U.S.A. ⏤
Stone Fiction
Stone Fiction porcelain tile offers the timeless appeal of crosscut travertine with the power of pure porcelain tile performance. Travertine is a timeless, earthly manifestation of style, but maintenance requirements and irregularities in the surface make a commitment to travertine— shall we say — hard. Stone Fiction is the elegantly effortless alternative you’ve been searching for.
The texture of these wall and floor tiles is smooth to the touch, and the unpolished finish provides necessary slip resistance. An additional exterior option makes Stone Fiction suitable for walkways and pool surrounds.
Visit the product page to view Stone Fiction’s infinitely matchable neutral color palette and order your free tile samples.
⏤ Stone Fiction is Responsibly Made in the U.S.A. ⏤
Stones at Large
With stunning visuals inspired by marble, onyx, and quartzite, our new Stones at Large porcelain tile collection delivers enduring luxury on a grand scale. These high-tech “stones” offer the durability, stain resistance, and incredible life cycle you expect from porcelain while achieving the luminescent visual depth found in their natural counterparts.
— Warm and Cool Neutral Hues —
— Sizes up to 48” x 48” in Unpolished and Polished Finishes —
— Coordinating Trim and Mosaics for Fully-finished Style —
Top Interior Design Projects
Nara-Ya | Washington, DC
In addition to becoming one of the hottest places to eat in DC, Nara-Ya was recently recognized as a Best Restaurant, Americas winner at the 2022 International Hotel and Property Awards. The bold and elevated interior design created by David Anthony Chenault is a syncopated extension of the cuisine, where traditional Japanese dishes are presented on the level of an art form.
Working with tile distributor Mosaic Tile to finalize the flooring options for the restaurant design, Chenault turned to Crossville’s Argent porcelain tile collection for its beautiful bold appearance that incorporates the look of natural argent stone. The look was right on target, and the durable porcelain body was just what was needed to meet all the performance requirements of the space. Visit our Project Gallery for the full design story.
Owner: Eaternity Restaurant Group
General Contractor: GN Contracting
Interior Designer: David Anthony Chenault
Tile Distributor: Mosaic Tile
Fort Worth Magazine Dream Home | Fort Worth, Texas
Elegant Statuario Venato porcelain panels from our I Naturali collection clad the fireplace in the living room of Fort Worth Magazine’s show-stopping Dream Street Project. The marble-look bookmatch panels are a stunning focal point contributing to the wow factor in the space. You can get the design scoop on this amazing project here in our Project Gallery.
Designer: Amira Windmiller Interiors
Builder: Windmiller Homes
Tile Distributor: Crossville Studios
Photography: Costa Cris
CET Experience and FaciliteQ+AI Denver Solution Center | Denver, Colorado
Crossville porcelain tile panels and porcelain slab collections prove to be the ideal surfacing solutions for a unique commercial and residential workplace showroom. Desiring a modern design aesthetic, the design team worked with Crossville to develop porcelain surfacing selections to ensure product options were available and customizable.
For the custom-designed kitchen, the team chose our innovative porcelain countertop material in the Sugar Coat polished option and Crossville’s Laminam porcelain panels in the Verderame colorway from our Ossido collection. These 12 mm-thick slabs provide all the performance advantages expected of commercial-grade porcelain tile, including easy maintenance and no worries about staining. The oxidized, weathered-metal look in porcelain panels blended beautifully with the white of the countertop slabs and new cabinets.
See more photos and get the full design story here.
Designer: Brandilyn Hamm of FaciliteQ+AI
Builder: Falkbuilt – Interior Construction
Installer: Revolution Flooring – Porcelain Wall Tile
Installer: CounterIntelligence – Countertop
Tile Distributor: Crossville Studios
Most Popular Blogs
Kaleidoscope Project — A Unique Designer Showhouse Features Diverse Talent Within The Creative Design Industry
A 1906 firehouse in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is the site of a unique designer showhouse that will be featured in an upcoming Aspire Magazine issue. The historic firehouse was repurposed for the Kaleidoscope Project into four two-bedroom, two-bath residential units, which will help to address the area’s need for affordable housing.
Austin Gray Design Group worked with Crossville in selecting a beautiful blend of products for one of the apartments in the building. Inspired by the historical significance of the Berkshires to the African American cultural experience, this team of Black women designers created an eclectic living space to be a sanctuary for working artists, art-lovers, and art collectors.
For the kitchen and bathroom, the designers selected Crossville Porcelain Slabs for the countertops and Groove Glass and Swatches wall tile for the tiled backsplashes. Click here to see more photos and get the full design scoop.
All Crossville Manufactured Tile, Porcelain Tile Panels, And Porcelain Slabs Receive Leader Rating From Mindclick
We’re honored to be a Mindclick Group partner! As part of MindClick’s Design for Health, we have a powerful way to provide designers with an easy-to-understand environmental health rating for our products, and we are honored that all our manufactured tile and porcelain panels and slabs have recieved Mindclick Leader rating. Click over to our blog to learn more about this program that helps designers to confidently specify materials and furnishings that align with standards for sustainability and healthy design.
Not All Porcelain Countertops Are Equal: Why Solid Surface Fabricators Love Crossville Porcelain Slabs And You Will, Too
We weren’t the first to offer a countertop product, but it’s important to understand that not all slabs are the same. Many fabricators experienced an array of issues with other slabs, making fabrication tricky — and more expensive. The arrival of Crossville porcelain countertop slabs in the surfacing marketplace alleviated many fabrication problems and benefited the customer by lowering fabrication costs.
Awards
Good Housekeeping Home Reno Award
After 5,000 hours of rigorous testing, Good Housekeeping magazine has shared its top picks for the best products and services to help homeowners create their dream homes. Crossville is honored to be chosen as a “Kitchen All-Star” in Good Housekeeping’s 2022 Home Renovation Awards for our versatile porcelain tile panels. Click here to see how Good Housekeeping got hands-on to select their top picks.
Pro Remodeler’s Top 100
We’re honored that our In-side porcelain panels landed in Pro Remodeler Media’s Top 100 in the Interiors category! Each year, Pro Remodeler’s editorial team tallies audience engagement for the building materials, tools, fixtures, fittings, and finishes that have appeared in the magazine over the past 12 months. The items that garnered the most interest are awarded a spot on the highly competitive Top 100 list.
Green Builder Media Eco-Leader
Crossville was recently chosen as one of eight national Eco-Leaders by Green Builder Magazine. The publication based its selections on the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy’s DISRUPT directives, which include:
- Design for the future
- Incorporate digital technology
- Sustain and preserve what’s already there
- Rethink the business model
- Use waste as a resource
- Prioritize regenerative resources
- Team up to create joint value
Readers’ Choice Award by KBB Magazine
Kitchen & Bath Business magazine’s 10th annual Readers’ Choice Awards program recognizes the best kitchen and bath design brands. Crossville is honored to be recognized with a Readers’ Choice Award by KBB Magazine in the Kitchen Flooring segment. As we continue to expand our focus on tile for the home, this recognition solidifies our reputation as a top tile specification for residential designers.
